Apple Pay Support Coming to Domino's By Year's End, Cinnabon Next Year

[stompy]

I don't understand why Apple Pay has to be individually implemented by each retailer. If the terminal is NFC-enabled why doesn't Apple Pay work automatically?

Yes, Apple Pay should work with NFC enabled terminals. (Last year, CVS pharmacies worked with Apple Pay, until NFC was disabled at all CVS locations, as mandated by company heads.)

This press releases is essentially stating that these retailers will have a policy to ensure that all locations have NFC enabled terminals. I expect this means company and franchise stores, but we'll have to wait and see.

 

[Sonmi451]

Cinnabon is GOOOOOD although i don't eat them very often...Dominos....no thanks

Yeah I think I did have one a few years ago. I don't remember if it was good but I remember it was expensive.

 

[benr1972]

Apple Pay had launched in Australia.

Just added my Amex card.

 

[dontwalkhand]

I don't understand why Apple Pay has to be individually implemented by each retailer. If the terminal is NFC-enabled why doesn't Apple Pay work automatically?

It does but this pretty much means they guarantee the Nfc terminals actually work.

 

[Corrode]

Chevron Debuts Apple Pay Gasoline Pump Pilot Program in Bay Area https://www.macrumors.com/2015/07/14/chevron-gas-apple-pay-pilot-program/

P.S. Here's a look at tap-to-pay at Canada gas stations. Don't think too many will support AMEX unfortunately.

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Even though it probably won't work, has anyone given it a try? They take Amex at the till, just not at the tap at the pump. I wonder if Apple Pay changes any of this.

 

[sudo1996]

you didn't buy them for her???????? !!!!!

Don't worry, I promise I'm a gentleman! She also went in with the intention of buying them herself; wasn't my idea to go the Apple Store. And it was also the first date, so she wasn't actually my girlfriend. We had already had dinner and watched a movie. I judged the situation.

Back on topic... We agreed that Apple Pay was not really worth bothering to set up.

 

[conceptvbs123]

About time. Samsung had support since this October.

 

[dontwalkhand]

Even though it probably won't work, has anyone given it a try? They take Amex at the till, just not at the tap at the pump. I wonder if Apple Pay changes any of this.

Nope. There's a similar setup that only takes Amex Contactless at the pump here in Arizona and nothing else. They'll take a swipe for every other card. Apple Pay doesn't change that unless you're tapping a supported card inside of Apple Pay.

 

[Andrei90]

The spark that jumps off of you when you wear that wool sweater and slide off of the leather seats on a dry day has a greater chance of starting a gas station fire than a cell phone.

It's like the "no cell phones in the ICU" thing. So, this thing that is keeping my son alive is susceptible to a cell phone? What the ...? Something that can be innocently brought into the area can make the machine that I'm paying probably $5/minute to keep him alive has no protection against a stray cell phone signal?

Mythbusters also debunked the "cell phones on the airplane" myth, where the cell signal could disrupt ATC signals.

It may just be the "we better ban anything that may ever cause a problem" culture, rather than a "we better find out if this is really a problem, and then take countermeasures" solutions.

But can it cause a problem or not? Mythbusters just have to do one or two test I'm guessing. I don't believe they made hundreds of tests did they?

 

[kdarling]

I think this was coming anyway as these stores get EMV readers (chip card) and they played it off as "let's advertise it as we take Apple Pay!!" When the EMV terminals have tap card functionality already.

Yep, that's usually the situation. It's about NFC payment acceptance, not Apple Pay per se. This particular case has some twists though:

Cinnabon is buying iPad based POS terminals from a company called Revel, who has made sure that their registers are able to accept the onboard device verification code... meaning no signatures will be necessary. (Not that that was going to be a real problem with relatively low Cinnabon purchase amounts, but anyway.)

Dominos is embracing NFC all over, and even has a Windows phone app in the UK that lets customers grab coupons and vouchers in the restaurant, by tapping on embedded NFC tags in promotional materials at the counter.

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

But can it cause a problem or not? Mythbusters just have to do one or two test I'm guessing. I don't believe they made hundreds of tests did they?

The Snopes article pretty much sums it up... It's a balance of:
How many people passively or actively have cell phones going when they're pumping gas (or worse, have a cell phone in their pocket when they get a call while pumping gas)?
What is the ignition source of the gasoline vapors?
How many gasoline station explosions have there been per year? (They'd definitely be in the news, at least locally)

It goes to proving a negative, and that cannot be done. Proving a negative is like saying, "You cannot light water on fire with a match." I cannot prove that it cannot be done, I can only say there is no objective evidence that water can be lit with a match.